Category: Ethics
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Fairground Boards – Transparency? Heck No!
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – September 25, 2018 – It’s bad enough taxes continue to go up, but it’s worse when some slick people think up reasons to convince the unsuspecting voters that they will be supporting a good cause in order to raise taxes. We’re talking about Measure F. In my opinion, such…
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Is Del Norte County Supervisor, Lori Cowan, a hypocrite?
By Donna Westfall – September 15, 2018 – At the September 11th Del Norte County Board of Supervisor’s (BOS) meeting, Supervisor 2nd District, Lori Cowan, refuted the announcement by Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin, about the increase in his registration fees stating that her registration fees on her five vehicles went up about $25 each…
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Cowan & Howard an Unholy Alliance?
By Donna Westfall – July 17, 2018 – The issue of quality healthcare at affordable prices is paramount to the future of our community. Without quality healthcare, our community is destined to wallow in a sea of mediocrity. Some in our community would rather drive or fly outside the community rather than enter the doors…
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Recall smells fishy!
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – June 13, 2018 – Something smells very fishy about the recall effort against Supervisor Bob Berkowitz. Jesse Davis, the Vice Chairman of the Cannabis Working Group has mailed a notice of recall against Berkowitz. Last I looked, Jesse Davis lived in McKinleyville, so what’s he doing in Del Norte…
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What’s the truth about candidates missing the youth forum?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 25, 2018 – As I prepared to go on air for my weekly program “Conversations with Sam”, KFUG 101.1 FM from 3 to 4 pm every Sunday, I found myself embroiled in the midst of a conversation of another sort between Mr. Jake Smith, my guest interview for the segment, and station…
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When Will They Ever Learn
By Donna Westfall – April 30, 2018 – It looks like the radical wing of the local Democratic Party is at it again. They are up to their old tricks of filing frivolous complaints with The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) against Supervisor Berkowitz. Only this time they have included Supervisor Gitlin in their outrageous…
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Dave Mason Nails Sups Howard & Hemmingsen on Withholding Information Re: Indians Reclaiming Land
By Donna Westfall – April 26, 2018 – If Dave Mason never spoke up at Tuesday’s Del Norte County Board Of Supervisors meeting held April 24, 2018, we would probably not know until some time in the distant future that the Tolowa Dee- Ni’ Nation wants to expand their borders: 13 miles starting from the…
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Is the MMR Vaccine causing autism?
Credit to Virginia Cole Smith and the Meredith Corporation – By Donna Westfall – March 25, 2018 – The word autism is used for the first time in 1908 to describe a subset of schizophrenic patients who were especially withdrawn and self-absorbed. Then a Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler, started using the term around 1911 to refer to…
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Another sewer rate increase in the works (History Lesson)
Opinion and Commentary Originally Published By Donna Westfall- March 23, 2018 – Republished 12/27/23 because of an impending sewer rate increase in 2024 and a change in the law. While the Federal government and California’s government is grappling with massive deficits by comparison our little dot in the universe with it’s ever increasing sales taxes…
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PART 2: GOOD OLE BOY JUDICIAL CORRUPTION EXPOSED — JUDGE WILLIAM FOLLETT
Factual Report by Wesley Nunn – February 7, 2018 – In 2017 Judge Follett sentenced Nolan Bruder. Bruder, a 19 year old adult, had drugged and raped his sister, a 16 year old minor. Bruder pled guilty. This is a very serious felony. But Judge Follett reduced it to a misdemeanor sentence in which Bruder…